Show of the week: Live From Space
First came Gravity and TV’s new Cosmos series. Now comes this real-time tour of the International Space Station.
Space is the place. First came Gravity and TV’s new Cosmos series. Now comes this real-time tour of the International Space Station as it orbits Earth. Astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata lead the tour, highlighting the groundbreaking research being conducted in microgravity and talking about the challenges of space walks, which have been likened to doing an auto repair while wearing an inflated balloon. Expect plenty of breathtaking shots from above, as the station will circle the globe once during the two-hour show. Saturday, March 15, at 11 a.m., National Geographic
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